Level of investment is relevant. Please stop fabricating my position to make it stupid.ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 11:04 am 1) if level of investment is irrelevant, then why invest beyond the bottom of league? If level of investment is irrelevant, why is there an arms race in college football? It can't be both ways and Bohl is clearly positioned better within conference than Glenn was REGARDLESS of reason.
The top three teams from Glenn's MWC out invested everybody. I'm not considering them....If you can find numbers that showed that we way underspent compared to the bottom 6 of that eras MWC please bring that forward. My assumption is that Wyoming, CSU, UNLV, SDSU, UNM, and AFA had a similar spread of financial commitment to football back then and have all increased to today. There is enough of a sample size there to make some apples to apples comparison that is not skewed by the high spending top of Glenn's MWC or the low spending bottom of Bohl's MWC.
If I'm wrong and Joe Glenn's program had half as much or less of a football budget than the median of that group back then...I'll concede that he was hamstrung from a financial standpoint. I have no idea where to find that data though...I guess you could look at raw coaches compensation...but that does not paint the total picture of overall program budget? As I've pointed out...SDSU and CSU have definitely out invested us overall during Bohl's tenure.
Am I looking at the wrong numbers? In 2003 Joe Glenn played Oklahoma St...they finished ranked number 32 for that year. I looked at the P5 programs that both coaches faced and looked at the corresponding year end Sagarin ranking of that program...is that not the right way to do that?ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 11:04 am 2) Year end ranking of opponent WITHIN year is the best relative metric for all teams on the schedule. If Bohl rarely beats teams in the 60-70+ range, then logic dictates the more of those teams that are on the schedule the worse the record would be.
Next week if I get time, we'll see if you are right.
As I showed above...the P5 programs that Glenn played OOC are not as good as the P5 programs that Bohl played. It's a matter of degree and neither coach did any good against them so it's kind of a wash anyways.
I'm not saying that Bohl played a tougher schedule top to bottom...please ... nobody is disputing that playing BYU, TCU, and Utah every year won't depress your win/loss total. I'm just pointing out that Glenn did worse against a group of teams at the bottom of his conference that is not far, from a competitive standpoint, from the version of those teams that Bohl is playing. Is that so controversial?
If you are downgrading Bohl because he's a dick in the media....just say so...but if you are claiming to defend Glenn because he played a murderer's row every year and did so with a dime to his opponents dollar....prove it. Glenn sucked against a group of teams that we as Wyoming fans expect to do better against....Bohl maintained the ability to beat that group for a few years beyond what Glenn could. That is all...Just...stop making up what I'm saying.